The London Observer has just put up a really excellent new blog, a mixture of links, commentary, and a kind of relaxed openness we’ve never seen in a major world newspaper.
Check out this bit, a late-night item by the executive editor that begins, “OK, there’s the first edition gone” and includes Read More
The “surprising” endorsements are starting to roll out in earnest in the Mayor’s race, and today we hear that Bill de Blasio is set to announce his support for Freddy.
The move is kind of a no-brainer for the Brooklyn Councilman, who makes no secret of his ambition to be the next City Read More
We hear Tom Ognibene is close to hiring Republican political consultant Brendan Quinn for his attack on Bloomberg’s right flank.
Quinn is a former executive director of the New York State Republican Party and a veteran of the bitter post-election action in Florida in 2000. His presence on the campaign would indicate a level of Read More
The Post today gets very excited about Gifford Miller’s hiring of Reggie Johnson, a “key black strategist” who, it reports fairly breathlessly, worked on Hillary‘s 2000 campaign.
Johnson is a very nice guy — last time we saw him around here, in 2002, he was the spokesman for failed Comptroller candidate Bill Read More
A few weeks ago, we floated a theory about how Jewish politicians in the Bronx and on the West Side might be leaning toward backing Virginia.
Now her campaign appears to be thinking the same way. The Forward’s politics blog is reporting that she just hired Bronx Rep. Eliot Engel‘s former chief Read More
We’re confident that the Rev. has a surprise or two in him yet this cycle, now that his nominal candidate, Charles Barron, has dropped out of the mayor’s race. This puts Freddy in an interesting position, as his embrace of Sharpton in 2001 remains a sore point to many on both sides.
Now they’re taking down the Gates, and we’re left with that sense you get when you’ve been fooled. I mean, we walked around in them, and the park was almost as pretty as it is without them. Meanwhile, there were lots of tourists, meaning lots of money for vendors and hoteliers and stuff, but Read More
About the bright orange gates that have lately been erected in a defenseless Central Park in the name of art, there are no neutral opinions. Everyone has either seen or heard about this massive assault on the most beloved of the city’s parks, and everyone has formed some sort of opinion on the worth or Read More
About the bright orange gates that have lately been erected in a defenseless Central Park in the name of art, there are no neutral opinions. Everyone has either seen or heard about this massive assault on the most beloved of the city’s parks, and everyone has formed some sort of opinion on the worth or Read More
